Kaspar Dönhoff

Kaspar Dönhoff (born January 1, 1587 , † July 4, 1645 in Warsaw ) was voivode of Dorpat and Sieradz , as well as Polish chief court marshal .

family

Prince Kaspar Dönhoff came from the Dönhoff family and was a son of Gerhard von Dönhoff († after 1602) and Margarethe von Zweiffel († 1622).

He was married to Anna Aleksandra Koniecpolska († 1651) since 1615. The marriage resulted in a daughter Anna, the grandmother of the Polish King Stanislaus I. Leszczyński and thus great-grandmother of the French Queen Maria Leszczyńska , and three sons, including Zygmunt Ernest Denhoff († 1655).

Kaspar Dönhoff was the progenitor of the imperial princes Dönhoff (Polish Denhoff ), which flourished in Poland, but already in the fourth member, in 1745 in the male line again extinguished.

Life

Dönhoff was 1627–1634 Voivode of Dorpat and (1634–1645) of Sieradz, royal cavalry master , from 1639 court marshal of the Queen and Starost of Wieluń , Lauenburg , Radomsko , Bolesław, Sokal , Mallschütz , Sobbowitz and Klonów.

He was in the favor of King Sigismund III. Wasas , whose close advisor was Dönhoff. For King Władysław IV Wasa , he was the emperor's envoy in order to woo Cäcilia Renata of Austria as his bride.

Kaspar Dönhoff, together with his brothers Magnus Ernst Dönhoff († 1642) and Gerhard Dönhoff († 1648), was given the imperial count by Emperor Ferdinand II in Vienna on January 11, 1633, and on August 8, 1637 alone, in the course of his successful courtship for his king, raised to the rank of imperial prince.

Dönhoff was a very wealthy man who also implemented extensive construction projects. First he had the castle in his Starostei Bolesław rebuilt and an Italian garden laid out there. Around 1630 he had a baroque residential palace built in Kruszyn . Here he had his main residence. The new building in Ujazd followed in 1636, which brought it closer to Warsaw. Although he owned numerous castles, he often lived in a wooden noble mansion near the king's residence in Warsaw. He was buried in his family's grave chapel at the Polish national shrine in Jasna Góra .

Web links

• compare: Dynastic Genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Building history of the magnates in Kruszyn (Polish) ( MS Word ; 1.4 MB)
2. ↑ (illustration and short description; Polish)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables , new series. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main 2002, Volume XX, ISBN 978-3-465-03166-6 , Plate 111 and 117A [1]
• Kilian Heck, Christian Thielemann (ed.): Friedrichstein. The castle of the Counts of Dönhoff in East Prussia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-422-06593-8 ; Pp. 13, 16-20, 22-24, 100, 132.